Google bugs me a few times a week to use Chrome on iOS because I use the Gmail app...

You have a point.

But what large group of people has there ever been where there has been no toxicity or social problems within?

Facebook, Twitter, social media in general, IRC, ICQ, news groups.... I've been around a looooong time on the internet, enough time to understand that the problem is not the platform, its the people.

How do we solve that?

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

Back in the days that home solar systems still mostly used lead-acid batteries - which in some cases of degradation could be repaired, at least partially, if you had some good strong and reasonably pure sulfuric acid - I viewed a YouTube video on how to make it. (From epsom salts by electrolysis using a flowerpot and some carbon rods from old large dry cells).

For months afterward YouTube "suggested" I'd be interested in videos from a bunch of Islamic religious leaders . (This while people were wondering how Islamic Terrorists were using the Internet to recruit among high-school out-group nerds.)

Software - AI and otherwise - often creates unintended consequences. B-)

No, Apple's EVP has no risk of being put in jail by contesting the court order.

Yes, they did. It's not open for debate, in view of the judge's order:
"The order, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, demands that an Apple official 'personally responsible for ensuring compliance' appear in court on May 27 'if the parties do not file a joint notice that this issue is resolvedâ¦'"

Personally requiring an executive to appear is a big ol' red flag there, buddy.

I think I agree that this is being done in good faith (to the court) pending appeal.

Good faith? It's being done in fear of some Apple EVP being tossed in holding and million dollar fines for contempt being imposed until Apple stopped stalling (16 months after losing its appeal of the injunction to the Supreme Court, and 20 days after the Court imposed sanctions, further restrictions, and made clear that its patience was at an end).

There was no good faith. There is fear of the hammer dropping even harder.

Theres no real reason why those "illegal hotels" cant get properly licensed and offer the same product at the same time (ie accepting pets).

The "illegal hotels" wont do that tho because it costs them money and means inspections so their rooms arent death traps.

Inaccurate.

Broadcoms cease-and-desist to perpetual license holders was in regards to applying updates after the support part of the contract expired. The perpetual licenses are still in effect, frozen at the last update that was included under the support part of the contract - perpetual license holders can extend the support contract separately.

It's not just that.

Its the US shouting "protectionism" while simultaneously restricting a lot of tech transfer to China in an effort to try and block their development.

If China cant rely on other countries for what they need, because the US forces restrictions on other countries trade with China (see the banning of an European countries chip UV manufacturing technology sale to China), then of course they are going to reduce their reliance in all areas on other countries.

Silicon has grades of quality, and while many beaches are made of silicon, barely any of it can be used for high quality purposes.

Until recently, EVs were exempt from road user charges, but in the past couple of years they have been phased in.

Basically, for petrol vehicles the taxes are built into the fuel costs - but because diesel vehicles are used a lot for non-taxable purposes (eg farm use off of public roads), there is no road user charges on diesel fuel. Instead, NZ has the concept of a Road User Charge fee that you have to buy per 1000KM of usage on the public road - the fee varies depending on type of vehicle and weight of vehicle, so heavier vehicles pay more, as do those who travel more.

EVs weighing up to 3500kg currently have to pay a RUC charge of $76NZD per 1000KM, which is the same for diesel vehicles in the same weight class.

The right doesn't much care about the million birds killed by windmills every year.

No, they just hate wind turbine generators in general.

But they are aware of the environment damage caused by mining the materials to build it, and to dispose of worn out panels, which isn't admitted to by the left.

Coal ash and nuclear waste. Next.

Like the ones that have started more deadly wildfires in California than all other causes combined?

Nope. Those are medium voltage distribution lines. Those 150k kV+ high tension lines on gigantic steel towers are transmission lines.

The only wind power generators farmers love are the small scale ones that maybe power a pump to water their cattle. The big, industrial ones installed by a power company look great until the contract runs out, and they find that the company that paid them for the land to put it on put the responsibility (and expense, which can run more than the farmer was paid in the first place) to tear it down, remove it, and restore the land for farming, after it gets abandoned at the end of its life.

Interesting fictional story, bro. You're wrong, but that's never stopped you.

Try talking to some actual farmers, and you'll find they're not as supportive as you want them to be. Which is why you don't talk to them.

So we're living in opposite world now. Where's your "talking to some actual farmers" evidence, bro?

Not without the subsidies, which are expected to be nearly half a trillion dollars in the next ten years.

Yes, without subsidies.

Nuclear is the only possible future to maintain a civilized standard of living. Most of the left have admitted that in recent years.

Back to opposite world again. Completely false, and no, "most of the left" have not fulfilled this weird fantasy of yours.

Better a hypocrite than a drooling idiot gobbling down whatever propaganda his betters spoon feed him.

But you're literally both. All propaganda, no data.

One might more rightly ascribe the power pinch to the mindless opposition to building infrastructure one finds in some places. And also the suing nuclear plants out of existence, tearing down hydroelectric dams because fish, and general opposition to modernity that very much exists on the environmentalist left.

But they'd be wrong. The right wing has plenty of mindless opposition to building infrastructure. Suing wind and solar farms out of existence, opposing high voltage transmission lines, crying about how farmland is being used when the farmers love wind power generators and, for those who've tried it, agrisolar, but what the hell do they know about running their own land when their neighbors just don't like the looks of things.

Don't blame this stuff on the environmentalist left. Solar and wind are cheaper than anything that you're complaining about now, but you'll whine about how people won't let you build more nuclear boondoggles despite nobody but the insiders being willing to pay the rates for those nuclear boondoggles.

Fucking hypocrite.

Yeah, sure, trust the hacker.

And it doesn't matter that it's not been released right now, that can change at any point in the future - the fact is, the data is out of the control of the original site now, so you should be acting like it's public.

Or the data can be cross referenced with data from a hacked ad provider or common JavaScript cdn provider, either now or at a later date, to provide probable identity information...

Again more bullshit from you.

Sure, devices have been known to catch fire while charging, but it's far from a normal occurrence, so you are allowed to use and charge devices in a flying aircraft.

But a damaged device is another matter entirely - stop trying to justify your own stupidity with ridiculous comparisons.